Neal in Ancient Greece -- challenge #34 (toned paper)

[minoanmiss]

Title: Neal Caffrey in Ancient Greece
Artist: minoanmiss
Rating: PG for outfit
Fandom: White Collar / Ancient Greece
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey
Content Notes: sketched by hand, tinted and finished in Paintbrush.



Again with the contrapposto pose I found so fetching.

First try:


The background had too much color so I went with this instead:



I may replace this flat background with a colorless gray ombre yet.
ETA the second image 'thumbnail' keeps showing up much too dark, so please click through to view the actual image.

Comments

[dreamkist]

I love the pose & expression! And nice details. :D

[yhlee]

Aww, so expressive! I love the pose.

[mific]

Neal baby! :) :)

Oh - I just saw the click through bit, and yes, I like that grayscale image the best of them, with the softer gray. Nice work!

[goss]

Yay, first second entry for the challenge! (heh, I just saw mific's) This pose turned out great - there's so much personality in the body language.

I like the soft atmosphere in the first one, but also how the darker skin in the second one, coupled with a dark background, makes the lighter clothing pop!

[julian]

I really enjoy that second one -- once I clicked through, the shading really worked. (Also, nice pose. And nice gentleman.)

[mekare]

Yay that pose again!

[potofsoup]

what a jaunty hip! :)

(and it's so weird that the image compression completely changed your shading?)